at high school we had a prizegiving ceremony for the kids who were best in each subject and one year they announced the awards were being given out by Don McLean, and me and my one other pal who knew the name as Mr American Pie got really confused, because we had had minor local celebs come give out the awards in years previous but Don McLean was surely far too famous to come to a town fifteen miles out of Glasgow?
It turned out Don McLean was Donald McLean, former high school alumni who lived locally to be in his 90s, not Actual Don McLean.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link